I had written here in anticipation of the March 29, 2010, Joint Symposium on International Investment Law and ADR, held by UNCTAD and the Washington and Lee School of Law. It was a smashing and impressive success, due to the remarkable convening powers of hosts Susan D. Franck of Washington and...
Tag Archives: conflict management
From the invaluable BASESwiki comes news of just the development I and others have pounded the table about: A long-term project that features a formal and permanent "canary-in-the-mine" that identifies and addresses problems early on, and successfully prevents conflicts....
Wilbur Hicks, Ombuds of the International Monetary Fund (and before that for Shell and Princeton) has directed our attention to the Ombuds Blog. Even a cursory review shows that this is a robust and (for me at least) hitherto overlooked resource for commercial conflict managers....
For as long as I've been active in conflict management, I have been confronted with a quote from Abraham Lincoln about not stirring up litigation. I first saw it on a pamphlet at CPR in 1998. Since then I have since seen it in articles, pamphlets, traning materials, mediation center...
Part I of this post summarized reports from Spain, South Africa, Bahrain, Pakistan and the Balkans. This second and concluding part presents reports from Argentina, the United States and Europe broadly....
The recent Conference of the International Bar Association in Madrid convened many of the leading practitioners and theorists in international law. The Dispute Resolution Section of the IBA offered panels prepared by its Arbitration Committee (co-chairs Pierre Bienvenu of Canada and Guido Santiago Tawil of Argentina) and its Mediation Committee (chair...
(Scene: White Horse Tavern, Hudson Street and 11th Avenue in the Village in New York City. Roger Fisher is having a beer with Alexander Hamilton, who is nursing a brandy.) Roger Fisher: Hamilton, I’ve been thinking…. Alexander Hamilton: That does not surprise me. You are after all a Professor. ...